Beverly is a historic home located in
Pocomoke City,
Worcester County,
Maryland
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,
United States
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. It is a -story,
Georgian-style
Flemish bond
Flemish bond is a pattern of brickwork that is a common feature in Georgian architecture. The pattern features bricks laid lengthwise (''stretchers'') alternating with bricks laid with their shorter ends exposed (''headers'') within the same cou ...
brick house built about 1770. The house faces the
Pocomoke River
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. An original circular
ice house survives on the property.
Beverly was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1975.
Littleton Dennis, great great grandson of John Dennis of Beverly England, died in 1774 before the house was finished but work went on and was completed by his widow Susanna Upshur Dennis and their children and their descendants lived in the house for nearly 150 years.
[″Homes of the Cavaliers″ By Katherine Scarborough. Tidewater Publishers Cambridge Maryland 1930,1969 P.382-392.]
References
External links
*, including photo from 1988, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses in Worcester County, Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses completed in 1770
Georgian architecture in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Maryland
1770 establishments in Maryland
Brick buildings and structures in Maryland
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